A TEENAGER has told a jury she was “scared” when a police officer groped her in her family home.

Pc Keith Burgess is on trial at Guildford Crown Court accused of sending sexually explicit messages to three girls aged between 15 and 17 in 2014 and 2015 while working as a neighbourhood officer in Southampton, Hampshire.

He also faces three counts of sexual assault, three of misconduct in public office, a child grooming offence and two child porn offences.

The court has heard the 42-year-old is accused of sexually assaulting a girl on May 19, 2015, at her home while her mother sat watching television in the next room.

Giving evidence behind a screen, the alleged victim, who was 16 at the time, told the jury: “I might not have shown it but I was scared, it wasn’t butterflies.”

When asked by Robert Bryan, defending, if she had been “nuzzling up” to the defendant as they were looking at Facebook on his phone, she said: “I wasn’t leaning my body into his, I was just looking over, my body wasn’t touching him.”

The court has heard that Burgess, wearing his police uniform, is alleged to have then groped her under her dressing gown and shorts and T-shirt and the victim has said she “smacked his hand away”.

The pair then went to watch television before returning to the kitchen, where he is accused of molesting her again.

The alleged victim said that on the first occasion in the kitchen, she pushed his hand away but did not say anything but on the second occasion she told him to stop.

She said: “The first time I didn’t say anything but the second time I did. He said ‘No, it’s okay’ and he continued doing it.”

She said she could not explain why she returned to the kitchen with him, adding: “I wasn’t comfortable with what was going on.”

The trial continues